While editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lower case), John Berry developed U&lc Online as an online companion to U&lc. Although there was a small amount of overlap in the written content, the two magazines were meant to be complementary, each taking advantage of its own medium. U&lc showcased ITC typefaces and ran feature articles on designers and their work from around the world; U&lc Online concentrated on content, on timely reviews, reports on events, and opinionated columns. John will talk about the challenge of publishing in two distinct media, and how he worked to create a dynamic interplay between the two different kinds of publication-and, potentially, two different audiences.
Type and periodicals and WWW
John D Berry is an editor/typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide. He is the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lower case: the international journal of graphic design and digital media) and of U&lc Online.
He has a deep and eclectic background in both writing/editing and typography; he made a career for more than twenty years in Seattle as an editor and book designer, before moving to New York in early 1998 to take over U&lc. His first issue as editor was the magazine's 25th anniversary issue. John developed U&lc Online for ITC as a separate but overlapping online magazine, with a series of columns, reviews, and event reports that did not appear in the printed U&lc. The balance between the two publications -one on paper, the other online- was an ongoing process of experiment and evolution.
John has done typographic consulting for several software companies, including Microsoft, Adobe, and Design Intelligence; he has written extensively o typography for magazines such as Aldus/Adobe Magazine, I.D., and Eye; he writes a regular column on type for creativepro.com and has been a contributing editor to Print; and for five years he was the house book designer for Copper Canyon Press, winning several design awards.
He is on the Board of Directors of ATypl and of the Type Directors Club in New York. He is a founder of Typeset inb San Francisco, and he is the US Country Delegate to ATypl. He lives in San Francisco with the writer Eileen Gunn.
John D. Berry